Chevening 2025-2026 Clore Leadership Fellowship in UK (Fully-funded)

The Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship is a partnership between the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Clore Leadership, offering mid-career professionals in the arts and culture sector an exceptional opportunity to undertake an individually tailored leadership programme in the UK. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office funds up to five international fellows to join a cohort of approximately 20 fellows, from across the UK and internationally,

The Clore Fellowships are awarded each year to leaders in areas such as the visual and performing arts, museums, libraries, archives and heritage, film and digital media, and cultural policy and practice.

• Table of Content
• About Chevening
• Chevening Fellowship
• Aim and Benefits of Chevening Fellowship
• Requirements for Chevening Fellowship Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Chevening Fellowship
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Chevening

Chevening is the UK government’s international awards programme aimed at developing global leaders. Funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations, Chevening offers two types of award – Chevening Scholarships and Chevening Fellowships – the recipients of which are personally selected by British embassies and high commissions throughout the world. Chevening offers a unique opportunity for future leaders, influencers, and decision-makers from all over the world to develop professionally and academically, network extensively, experience UK ... continue reading

Chevening Fellowship

• Category Fellowship
• SponsorChevening
• City to study -
• School to study -
• Course to study Not specified
• Application Deadline November 5, 2024

Aim and Benefits of Chevening Fellowship

1. Up to two return economy flights from your home country to the UK to undertake fellowship activities
2. Accommodation while in the UK
3. Living expenses while in the UK
4. A period of secondment for approximately 4-6 weeks at a cultural institution in the UK
5. Individually tailored fellowship learning plan which may include participation in courses conferences and other processional development activities in the UK
6. Course and conference fees within the UK
7. Training and development costs within the UK
8. Travel in the UK

Requirements for Chevening Fellowship Qualification

Applications are invited from individuals from the following countries:

• Brazil
• China
• Egypt
• India
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Mexico
• South Africa

To be eligible for a Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship, applicants must:

• Intend to return to the country they were selected from at the end of the period of study
• Hold a degree that is equivalent to at least a good UK second-class honours degree or have equivalent professional training and/or experience
• Have completed at least five years’ work, or equivalent experience, by the end 2024
• Work in the cultural sector, in areas such as the visual and performing arts, museums, libraries, archives and heritage, film and digital media, and cultural policy and practice.
• Meet the minimum requirements in accordance with the main fellowships scheme
• Have a good working knowledge of English to be assessed in your application form and if you are invited to interview
• Not hold British or dual British citizenship
• Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative* of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, a sponsoring UK university, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

• Note: Immediate relatives are defined as parents or step-parents, siblings or step-siblings, children or step-children, spouse, civil partner or unmarried (where the couple have been in a relationship akin to marriage or civil partnership for at least two years).

  Please note that applicants who have previously received financial benefit from a HMG-funded scholarship or fellowship are eligible to apply after a period of five years following the completion of their first HMG funded award. In these cases, applicants will be required to demonstrate their career progression from that point.

  Applicants are also advised to review the Eligibility Criteria.

  
   

Interview date, Process and Venue for Chevening Fellowship

The Fellowship starts in September 2025, with fellows travelling from their home country to the UK to undertake the 1st fellowship residential in September 2024 and then returning to their home country in early October 2025

Fellows return to the UK in January 2026 to undertake the majority of their bespoke training and development. This will include workshops, study visits across the UK, secondments, mentoring, attendance at training courses and conferences, and the 2nd Fellowship residential course in May 2026, which completes the Fellowship programme.

Application Deadline

November 5, 2024

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Chevening on asams.chevening.org to apply

Applications for the 2025-2026 Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship are now open!

For more details visit: Chevening website.